Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they achieved no other goal, the Senate hearings confirmed President Johnson's belief that nothing short of a premature pullout from Viet Nam will pacify the pacifiers. The hard-core critics of his foreign policy, concluded a White House aide, "are insatiable. They will not accept the legal argument, the political argument, the moral argument or the military argument. They want out." And that, Lyndon Johnson maintains, is the one argument he will not buy at any price. Last week, more determinedly than ever, he said it again...
...notion of greater cooperation with the President also bothers many Congressmen, who feel that the legislative branch has already lost too much power to the executive. "I can't imagine a better argument against the proposal than that," retorted Virginia Republican Richard Poff, a onetime supporter of the amendment. "I think it is the function of the legislative branch to defy, when necessary, the executive, to resist soli darity with...
...between the President and the Congress-a constitutional question as old as the Republic. In testimony before the committee, Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach contended without dispute that two-year terms force most Representatives to campaign year-round, to the neglect of their legislative duties. No one denied his argument that two years is hardly time enough to gain background for the deluge of bills-11,856 in 1965 alone-that demand a Representative's consideration...
...fear of stirring controversy, the Administration has treated its year-old policy of supporting birth control programs at home and abroad with all the delicacy of a family doctor. An anti-poverty program to distribute contraceptives to unmarried and separated mothers has actually been halted by a bitter argument over its moral and social desirability...
...impressive was this argument: (there is, one would think, an active Communist lobby to push an Inner Belt route through M.I.T.) that it would seem M.I.T. would merely have to have a number of scientific and defense agencies put the pressure on the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to stop any Inner Belt route inimicable to the Institute. (The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost of the highway...